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they failed to to franklin roosevelt and richard nixon. four of them did not effectively communicate this agenda or initiative were jefferson, monroe, grant and cleveland. obviously the dominant source of failure for the second term prudent has been their inability to successfully work with congress, the second term presidents have faced troubled or second terms do directly to the fight between the congress and the white house. having a congressional majority of their own party is no assurance of release. those presidents that serve in the congress having the majority of the opposing party during the second term included willson, eisenhower, nixon, ronald reagan and clinton. the competitive battle to the president and congress dates to the site george washington had in the congress over the treaty. he had won approval only after standing considerable efforts looking directly with members of congress compromising and cudgeling and that was with the congress having the majority of white thinking federalists' a president who was revered in a
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but of course we know that franklin roosevelt won. even though it's not inevitable that he was going to win, there are some skills that he demonstrated in that election that show why he wants. how he campaigned and how he connected to the voters and that is one of the issues that i try to deal with in this book. before going back to the story, i should tell you a little bit about the research much of which happened in this building in downtown in the manuscript room and the newspaper reading room and other sections i started out of course by trying to read as many books about roosevelt and hoover and about the great depression as it possibly could. there is no end of literature on those subjects. but then of course, if you are writing a new book you have to file a new perspective on these things. you have to demonstrate that there is a reason to read your book as opposed to all these other books on the subject. and so, i began looking at the oral history many of which are here in this library. i began looking at - collections downstai
but of course we know that franklin roosevelt won. even though it's not inevitable that he was going to win, there are some skills that he demonstrated in that election that show why he wants. how he campaigned and how he connected to the voters and that is one of the issues that i try to deal with in this book. before going back to the story, i should tell you a little bit about the research much of which happened in this building in downtown in the manuscript room and the newspaper reading...
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. >> right after being reelected to his second term, franklin roosevelt made his case for pack the courts saying he had the american people on his side to do that. he did not have the american people on his side to do that. or he didn't have enough to prevent that unsuccessful proposal from going down in history books everywhere as fdr's court-packing scheme. nothing ever gets called a scheme if it works or if people look kindly upon it. but that was fdr's second term. dew point to know when watergate happened? his second term. when katrina happened? george bush's second term. when barack obama was elected the first time, they summed it up with this head line. "black man given nation's worst job." that was for the start of his first term. might be more apt for second term. the second term is when the job turns out to be a difficult job for presidents. if you go back to woodrow wilson in his second term trying to join the league of nations, that was pretty much the end of wilson. that was his second term. when it was truman in his second term during the korean war, he fired general mcarthu
. >> right after being reelected to his second term, franklin roosevelt made his case for pack the courts saying he had the american people on his side to do that. he did not have the american people on his side to do that. or he didn't have enough to prevent that unsuccessful proposal from going down in history books everywhere as fdr's court-packing scheme. nothing ever gets called a scheme if it works or if people look kindly upon it. but that was fdr's second term. dew point to know...
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people talk about franklin roosevelt in 1936 winning a landslide election and then failing to pack the supreme court, but he went on to win two more terms, went on in that second term to push minimum wage and get us ready for world war ii-eisenhower's second term, he had little rock where he sent in federal troops. he demilitarized antarctica gave the famous farewell address. i could take all the second-term presidents. the problem is nixon was so rotten and george w. bush. there teds to bends to be this thing of a curse. >> let me suggest because i do look back at the second roosevelt term as a problem because he went very conservative again, cut sp braus usought us into econd part of the great depression. i think eisenhower had the big problem with sherman adams who betrayed him for money basically. this is a theory and it may be changed by history. first president, first term you pick the best people you can for your cabinet. the best people around you because you've been spending your whole life looking f you promote everybody from within. >> you are a jolly good fellow and you don
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delano roosevelt who saved us from the republican great depression and successfully fought world war two after him came republican white d. eisenhower who not only continued roosevelt's policies but so massively increased federal government investments in america from pain eighty percent of the cost of all new hospitals to building schools the interstate highway system the much of the infrastructure we use in america today was actually build or started during eisenhower's presidency those policies also so. grew our economy that combined with eisenhower's ninety one percent top income tax rate on the rich and reasonable well enforced taxes on businesses we were able to pay off the massive one hundred twenty seven percent of g.d.p. debt that would run up fighting world war two roosevelt and eisenhower lifted up the working class created the modern middle class and the rich did just fine although their wealth root about the same rate as everybody else's next came ronald reagan who began the complete reversal of the previous fifty years of highly successful progressive policies for the f
delano roosevelt who saved us from the republican great depression and successfully fought world war two after him came republican white d. eisenhower who not only continued roosevelt's policies but so massively increased federal government investments in america from pain eighty percent of the cost of all new hospitals to building schools the interstate highway system the much of the infrastructure we use in america today was actually build or started during eisenhower's presidency those...
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i mean people talk about franklin roosevelt in 1936 winning a landslide election and failing to pack the supreme court. but he went on to win two more terms, he went on and in that second term, to push a minimum wage and get us ready for world war ii. eisenhower's second term he had little rock where he sent in federal troops, he demilitarized antarctica, created anwar, gave the famous farewell address. i can take all these second term presidents. nixon was so rotten his second term and george w. bush's was. there tends to be a curse. bill clinton and ronald reagan did well. i think both of them could gotten elected a third time. >> i look back at the second roosevelt term as a problem because he went very conservative then, cut spending and browse us into a second -- brought us into a second part of the great depression which he didn't have to do. it was done by policy. i think eisenhower had the problem with sherman adams, his chief of staff betrayed him for money. i want to try something by you, a theory, it may be changed by history, first president, first term you pick the best
i mean people talk about franklin roosevelt in 1936 winning a landslide election and failing to pack the supreme court. but he went on to win two more terms, he went on and in that second term, to push a minimum wage and get us ready for world war ii. eisenhower's second term he had little rock where he sent in federal troops, he demilitarized antarctica, created anwar, gave the famous farewell address. i can take all these second term presidents. nixon was so rotten his second term and george...
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roosevelt and then to reagan. jenna: one of the things you brought up in your op-ed piece recently was social issues like gay marriage or bigger, broader, you know, national issues like immigration, you say there's something in there for the republican party that is not necessarily issue-based, but a return to roquism. and if -- localism, and i think it's an interesting point that maybe we should discuss in the next several weeks and months. >> absolutely, jenna. you know, you're opening up a pandora's box. conservativism, when it was beginning to be coalesced in the aye 50s, there was a philosophy of fusionism which is that business interests felt they were threatened by big government, and so did social, family values were threatened by big government, so they found commonality in a low, in a small government philosophy, and that's what brought them together and formed the basis of conservativism for 40 years. beginning in 2001 and 2002 that pandora's box was opened with the nationalization of social issues, and
roosevelt and then to reagan. jenna: one of the things you brought up in your op-ed piece recently was social issues like gay marriage or bigger, broader, you know, national issues like immigration, you say there's something in there for the republican party that is not necessarily issue-based, but a return to roquism. and if -- localism, and i think it's an interesting point that maybe we should discuss in the next several weeks and months. >> absolutely, jenna. you know, you're opening...
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franklin delano roosevelt vice- president and agricultural commerce secretary, suggesting midwestern united states would have put america on a radically different trajectory had his path to the presidency not been blocked by the democratic party leaders in 1944. >> seeing the war clouds gathering clearly on the horizon, roosevelt decided to break with president and run for a third term in 1940 against strong anti-war republican candidate wendell willkie, a corporate attorney from indiana. the stakes were high. the nation might soon be at war. roosevelt weighed his options and chose his controversial secretary of agriculture, henry wallace, as his running mate. wallace had overseen an extraordinary return to agricultural prosperity during the great depression. these policies have been at the heart of the new deal. for the urban poor, wallace also have provided food stamps and school lunches. he instituted programs for land use planning and soil conservation. he carved out his credentials in the new deal years as an outspoken anti-fascist. instead of the scientific community's best all
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dell nor roosevelt either. he is a candidate that doesn't say thank you to people who vote for him. the president has built a stronger coalition, and the republican coalition has been in trouble for a long, long time. republicans look at elections like 2010 and 1994 where a third of the election for ate is over one state. and then they are surprised where they don't win when 16% of the election for ate is over age 65. >> what about the argument you will hear, which is romney was not a consistent conservative. had he been a consistent conservative throughout his political career and had had not flip-flopped to conservatism recently, we would have run our test with a solid conservative candidate, and you can't make the argument against conservative republicanism if romney was the standard bearer of that, because he was such a false standard bearer. >> i voted for mitt romney, and i like moderate mitt from massachusetts, and i am perhaps the last person with something good so say about romney care. i thought that
dell nor roosevelt either. he is a candidate that doesn't say thank you to people who vote for him. the president has built a stronger coalition, and the republican coalition has been in trouble for a long, long time. republicans look at elections like 2010 and 1994 where a third of the election for ate is over one state. and then they are surprised where they don't win when 16% of the election for ate is over age 65. >> what about the argument you will hear, which is romney was not a...
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president obama becomes the president reelected with the highs unemployment rate since franklin roosevelt and he promised to reach across the aisle more in his second term. >> whether i earned your vote or not, i have listened to you, i have learned from you, and you've made me a better president. and with your stories and your struggles, i return to the white house more determined and more inspired than ever about the work left to do and the future that lies ahead. [cheers and applause] >> the big issue the two parties still have to resolve is whether to increase taxes to come up with part of the money to reduce the deficit. neither the president nor house speaker john boehner signaling compromise on that in their post-election comments, martha. martha: no doubt as the president points out there is a lot of work to be done, and they will have to get down to it, because you've got that looming fiscal cliff that we are headed towards right now. what are the analysts as they short of chew over what happened last night, what are they saying? >> it was ohio that decided the election for the p
president obama becomes the president reelected with the highs unemployment rate since franklin roosevelt and he promised to reach across the aisle more in his second term. >> whether i earned your vote or not, i have listened to you, i have learned from you, and you've made me a better president. and with your stories and your struggles, i return to the white house more determined and more inspired than ever about the work left to do and the future that lies ahead. [cheers and applause]...
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franklin roosevelt went like this and had oklahoma on his fingertips of his desk in the oval office n. one day one storm moved more dirt than in the ten years it took to excavate the panama cam and people were suffering from dust pneumonia. kids were dying. it was an amazing holocaust that we forget about and this could happen again because we're -- we have the drought right now, climate change. this was a specific man made disaster. climate change now intensifies out of storms like sandy as the governor knows, and it intensifies the drought that's going on, you know, right now in the same section of the country. >> now, more than ever, i think it's really hit us and hit people who, you know, usually watch these store chris unfold on the periphery outside of their zone of comfort. now we know. mike barnicle, you've seen the film. >> i've seen about 45 minutes of it. that's the question, though, ken. a decade long, you know, rape of the land up through the gut of the country. that impacted the entire country. and god bless you, sadly for our culture, this is now a way for too many peop
franklin roosevelt went like this and had oklahoma on his fingertips of his desk in the oval office n. one day one storm moved more dirt than in the ten years it took to excavate the panama cam and people were suffering from dust pneumonia. kids were dying. it was an amazing holocaust that we forget about and this could happen again because we're -- we have the drought right now, climate change. this was a specific man made disaster. climate change now intensifies out of storms like sandy as...
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roosevelt or lyndon johnson put the country on. >> barbara? >> as we get to the end of the evening. talk about mrs. obama and what happens to her in the next four years. she has done a wonderful job of bringing up the two girls allowing them to have a private life. malia is 14. sasha, 11. in four years, malia will be going off to college. they're going to have to face her dating, which is going to be very difficult i think for the president. she is going to get a driver's license. and mrs. obama has got to decide what her project are going to be for the next four years. it has to go beyond, moving on and obesity. spent a great deal of time with veterans and their families. and afghanistan now, becoming, more, and more in the past. she has to fiend new project, nw determination and new life for herself. she said very clearly she does not want a political career in four years. she doesn't have the patience. she has a great opportunity to do some wonderful things. >> the president, by the way, i interviewed him after the first debate. he said two
roosevelt or lyndon johnson put the country on. >> barbara? >> as we get to the end of the evening. talk about mrs. obama and what happens to her in the next four years. she has done a wonderful job of bringing up the two girls allowing them to have a private life. malia is 14. sasha, 11. in four years, malia will be going off to college. they're going to have to face her dating, which is going to be very difficult i think for the president. she is going to get a driver's license....
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roosevelt managed to win reelection with an unemployment rate of 8%. we were told there was no way in the prevailing sentiment that barack obama could come close to matching the 2008 turn out of young voters or latino voters. we were told conventions to not count anymore and that they have become a stylized -- as stylized as kabuki theater and ignored by the vast majority of non- partisan spiri. and convention speeches do not matter any more. they are all sort of in distinguishable. all those truisms have been disproved. an election that dealt often content-free, in a curious way, if you think backk to bill clinton's speech at the democratic convention, that is exactly what it was. it is hard to imagine a single speech that more effectively moved the numbers on a very difficult divide. that tends to be set almost in concrete. it is unprecedented that one speaker in 50 minutes managed to move those numbers. that was the keynote speech not only for the convention but the campaign. it was not equal again by anyone. but it did not have to be. it weaker so
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and it's a feat last accomplished by franklin delano roosevelt. which of the candidates hopes to repeatet repeat it on tuesday night? we'll get to that next on "weekends with alex witt." try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our business. this is the only thing we've ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. make your mark with ink from chase. to bring you a low-priced medicare prescription drug plan. ♪ with a low national plan premium... ♪ ...and copays as low as one dollar... ♪ ...saving on your medicare prescriptions is easy. ♪ so you're free to focus on the things that really matter. call humana at 1-800-808-4003. or go to walmart.com for details. >>> it seems that mitt romney's campaign is appearing right on schedule as he appears in dubuque, iowa. ann romney now waving to the crowd. mitt romney was right there at the podium moments ago. but let's take a listen to ann who is
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social security today is a lot different than it was when franklin roosevelt first instituted it. it's not as if it's etched in stone. that said, it's got to be a balanced approach. i think that's what the president is going to say. the two actually save the entitlement programs the nation is on the road to bankruptcy, to save them we have to make some adjustments. but you have to do it in a way that also calls for additional revenue. and how you do that through tax restructuring and possibly asking those who have been most successful in society to do a bit more to help get the deficit down, that balanced approach is what i think he's going to insist on. i think you'll find both sides, the my party, will be saying no changes to entitlements whatsoever. and the far right they'll be saying, no revenue whatsoever. what needs to happen, what ultimately will, will be something somewhere between the 40-yard lines. host: do you think democrats are serious about deficit reduction? guest: i think so. in part because we have to be. the markets will not allow us to continue to go down this p
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woodruff: right now the month of october it was 7.9%. >> franklin roosevelt won with 16% in 1936. but only did that because things were getting a lot better. >> think of one of the accomplishments though of this campaign. if you went back and looked at the number, that critical number right track wrong track of the country before the convention, i think you would find in a much more negative light than coming out of the convention. in that sense, something really interesting has happened. i'm not sure we fully understand. i and others have complained about the ideas in this campaign and yet it may very well be that this has been more a campaign of persuasion, convincing the american people that things aren't great but they're getting better. what can i say? >> ifill: let me ask as we watch the folks in chicago dance to aretha franklin respect. mark, let's talk about respect. was this a question of the president's being the appealing figure that was able to overcome all these historical imperatives about the unemployment rate and about all these other things that he wasn't supposed
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woodrow wilson, franklin roosevelt, bill clinton and barack obama. not bad company to be in. >> by the way, i heard you say that on wednesday morning. who was the democrat -- the last democrat before that to do it? >> well -- >> that's a test. >> -- that is a test. >> jackson? >> i guess it would be jackson. >> i think, yeah. one of five. >> it's a very big deal. it seems to me now -- and this goes to what john was just talking about -- how human they are. he is tired. it is incredibly emotional. so the question, then, is in this moment, does he become more open to humility, something mike's been talking about for a couple of days. does he become the humble figure who says, i heard you even if you voted against me. and we sometimes forget, these are men who run around realizing that virtually one out of every two people he sees doesn't want him to have the job he's got. >> right. zloo which >> which is an emotionally wearing thing, it would seem to me. does he draw strength from this? what does he learn from the first four years? and how long does th
woodrow wilson, franklin roosevelt, bill clinton and barack obama. not bad company to be in. >> by the way, i heard you say that on wednesday morning. who was the democrat -- the last democrat before that to do it? >> well -- >> that's a test. >> -- that is a test. >> jackson? >> i guess it would be jackson. >> i think, yeah. one of five. >> it's a very big deal. it seems to me now -- and this goes to what john was just talking about -- how human...
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i think we should take a moment and say the president has now joined woodrow wilson, franklin roosevelt and bill clinton as the only democrat to win two terms in the last century, and that's a remarkable achievement. >> it is remarkable. >> to my mind, the question is, as -- i think we should also maybe go ahead and try to ban the word "soul searching," which has already become -- >> i think it needs to be. >> even in the last eight hours, it's become -- >> soul searching. >> how about crushed to pieces and rebuilt again? >> whatever works. >> you know. >> reconstructive surgery. >> that has a ring to it. >> that could work these days. >> i heard that. they're working on my nose. i think the big thing is what -- which is obvious -- what does he do now? >> what does the president do? >> what does the president do? >> right. >> as you said at the top, not much has changed. >> so what is -- mike barnicle, what's the president's mandate? >> well, the president's mandate is obviously to build upon his election last night and to go to the -- he's got to go. he's got to take the first step bec
i think we should take a moment and say the president has now joined woodrow wilson, franklin roosevelt and bill clinton as the only democrat to win two terms in the last century, and that's a remarkable achievement. >> it is remarkable. >> to my mind, the question is, as -- i think we should also maybe go ahead and try to ban the word "soul searching," which has already become -- >> i think it needs to be. >> even in the last eight hours, it's become --...
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i mean, i was looking at data all the way back to franklin roosevelt's presidency, steve and no president has been reelected since fdr with an unemployment rate above 7.5, i think ronald reagan, reelected 7.4% when reagan was reelected so this is a daunting task for president obama to say, look, reelect me even though we've got nearly 8% unemployment and don't forget this unemployment rate has been at or above 8% now for about three and a half years. >> steve: very long. of course, the number one reason people are going to the polls on tuesday, the economy. steven, wall street journal, thank you for joining us mrif from d.c. >> great to be with you. >> steve: straight ahead a stunning endorsement on this sunday morning about to be revealed. nearly 500 former military a admirals and generals poised to endorse mitt romney. and our next guest says that president obama is about to lose florida, and he knows it, right back. en ragu users chos. prego?! but i've bought ragu for years. [ thinking ] woer what other questionable choices i've made? i choose date number 2! whooo! [ sigh of relf ] [ m
i mean, i was looking at data all the way back to franklin roosevelt's presidency, steve and no president has been reelected since fdr with an unemployment rate above 7.5, i think ronald reagan, reelected 7.4% when reagan was reelected so this is a daunting task for president obama to say, look, reelect me even though we've got nearly 8% unemployment and don't forget this unemployment rate has been at or above 8% now for about three and a half years. >> steve: very long. of course, the...
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he worked as part of the franklin roosevelt campaign team. he was the first chairman of the securities and exchange commission. the first chairman of the maritime commission. the first irish american to be ambassador to the court of st. james and great britain. and the father of the president and attorney general of a senator, the woman who did more for the mentally disabled in this country in this world than anyone else and who will come 100 years from now, be as well-known as her brothers, i think. and the youngest, jean kennedy smith, the ambassador to ireland, who was instrumental in arranging peace. and senator edward kennedy. the longest serving senator in the united states senate. the story of joseph kennedy is a story of a man who spent his life moving back and forth from outsider to insider to outsider and insider again. it is the story of an irish catholic who is not ashamed of his heritage, but who refused to be defined by it. his parents have been warning the united states. he was a third-generation immigrant. his reference to com
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delano roosevelt issued the following statement for the people of the middle east. just imagine a president saying that. praise be to you and the name of god the passionate, the merciful. may god be upon you. this is a great day for you because behold a week, the american warriors have arrived. we have come here to fight the great jihad of freedom. we have come to set you free. today is the 70th anniversary of the landing on north africa and prisoner agreed jihad of american freedom once again but we don't remember that because words matter so much less than actions. if those are three broad lessons were the three most urgent issues on your agenda here won't repeat the words of my colleagues because the iran nuclear negotiations dealing with iran more generally, number one bringing down assad as quickly as possible. number two, with the third i would add this the following. preventing the collapse of one or more additional pro-western regimes. especially the pro-western monarchies. the three are the top of the list. bahrain, jordan and morocco. morocco has figured o
delano roosevelt issued the following statement for the people of the middle east. just imagine a president saying that. praise be to you and the name of god the passionate, the merciful. may god be upon you. this is a great day for you because behold a week, the american warriors have arrived. we have come here to fight the great jihad of freedom. we have come to set you free. today is the 70th anniversary of the landing on north africa and prisoner agreed jihad of american freedom once again...
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. >> franklin roosevelt, you talk about the communities electric for president obama. one of them right near here in harlem. abc's deborah roberts is there, the same place she was four years ago, another celebration, deborah. >> hey, george, i got to tell you this doesn't even seem like the same room i stepped into five hours ago. when we arrived here people were somber. they were sick to their stomach with worry thinking it would be a very long night. one woman -- with the president feeling disappointed and -- tonight she said it's all a given. they are here for the president tonight, george. there's one gentleman said to me it's almost like a couple renewing their wedding vows. maybe they're not as giddy as they were on their honeymoon but at the end of the day they can still love each other. i think you see this love is still here for the president. these people are beside themselves. right? >> i love it. loving it. four more years. >> somber, you said. not with what we're seeing. we can barely hear you and let's head out to josh elliott who is out in tes square. jo
. >> franklin roosevelt, you talk about the communities electric for president obama. one of them right near here in harlem. abc's deborah roberts is there, the same place she was four years ago, another celebration, deborah. >> hey, george, i got to tell you this doesn't even seem like the same room i stepped into five hours ago. when we arrived here people were somber. they were sick to their stomach with worry thinking it would be a very long night. one woman -- with the...